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Monday, October 17, 2005

The Best Defense May Not Be a Good Offense
"Stop the 'War on Terror'," says Michael S. Rozeff, a professor at my alma mater, arguing that self-defense is a better strategy:
    Terrorists are criminals, but they are not always our criminals. When they are, as in the case of bin Laden and others whom there is evidence against, then there is justification for moving against them, although we may debate the means of doing so.
It is not that difficult to make the case that he war in Afghanistan was, and perhaps still is, justifiable. The same can not be said of the war in Iraq.

This article, from the UK, suggests that, rather than warfare, intelliegence, something sorely lacking in both Washington and London, is a better strategy to combat terror: In the fight against al-Qaida we need people, not tanks.